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TIL the entire Oregon coast is public land

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5YElQ TIL that water has joined gold, oil and other commodities that are traded on Wall Street as worries about the uncertainty of its availability in the future rises.
R7EW9 TIL Men produce around 1,500 sperm - per second
xVEG0 TIL for millennia Autism and other sudden disabilities was explained by the Changeling folklore. A fairy or demon would steal a normal baby and replace them with their own child in disguise. The Changeling would cry, scream, not display social behavior, or just become completely unresponsive.
BrnBD TIL The earliest advanced society in Europe wrote both written word and hieroglyphs which have still never been deciphered
BgBly TIL that future British Prime Minister Anthony Eden carried a letter bomb in his suitcase for a whole day, thinking it was a Whitehall pamphlet that he would read later in the day. He only realized it was a bomb after being warned by the police, who were informed by MI5.